Does Truecrypt mark bad sectors when it is encrypting (not quick format)?

Joepublic2

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I doubt the truecrypt program itself does; this is something the device's firmware in conjunction with the OS usually handle. If there are user visible bad sectors the drive (HDD or SSD) is pretty much done and should be RMAd/destroyed. Drives have a reserve pool of sectors; when the firmware identifies a weak/failed sector it's added to a black list of places not to store data and a reserve sector is used in its place. When that pool runs out or the firmware is unable to perform this function for whatever reason is when the user begins to see bad sectors, so the drive is usually on its last legs at that point.
 

BirdDad

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I have three drives that are showing unreadable parts of files like AVIs that will not copy to another drive. Does this mean that I have bad sectors on all drives?
 

Jembo

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What were the circumstances? Were the encrypted partitions a hidden volume? Were they just encrypted file containers?
 

BirdDad

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they are whole disk encrypted(not boot), no hidden partition and not containers
 

BirdDad

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Just an ordinary PC with three drives plus a boot SSD no RAID Windows 8.1 pro
 
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